Past Connects Events

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• Technology Entrepreneurs Networking Event
  Hosted by The Pittsburgh Technology Council
  Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009, 5pm-7:30pm 428 S. 27th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 (across from the Cheesecake factory)
  RSVP: via email or phone to Justin Driscoll (jdriscoll@pghtech.org, 412.918.4281)
  
  
• Show me the money! SBIR/STTR: The Basics
  Wednesday, October 14 • 7:30 - 9:30 AM 104 Mervis Hall • University of Pittsburgh, Oakland
  
  
• CONNECT with SBIR/STTR Program Managers
  Meet SBIR/STTR Program Managers from NSF and NIH
  Monday October 19, 2009 • 8-11:30am, Newell Simon Hall 1507

  The Dos and Don’ts of Forming Student Business Teams
  Wednesay, October 7, 2009, 5.30-7.30pm Room 4405 Gates and Hillman Centers

• Olympus and Heinz College Institute for Social Innovation present a “Talk by Environmental Justice Advocate Majora Carter,”
  Wednesday, September 30, 2009 • 6 to 7:30 p.m. Newell Simon Hall, room 3305 • Carnegie Mellon’s campus

• Olympus Connects Women@SCS and TechPOWR
  Tuesday, September 29, 2009 • 5:30 to 8 p.m. 4620 Henry Street • Project Olympus

• Patent Pending: An Overview of the Patent Process for Inventors
  Friday, August 7th • 8am-10am • 104 Mervis Hall • Pitt ’s Campus
  
  
• Take what you have; and make of it what you can!
  Milton Fine • April 7, 2009 • 4:30pm • MMCH 103, Breed Hall
  

  A native of Pittsburgh, Milton Fine is a lifetime trustee of the Carnegie Institute and board member of the Andy Warhol Museum, amongst numerous other institutions supporting the arts. After a long and successful career in hotel and real-estate investment, he and his wife, Sheila, established the Fine Foundation, a private family foundation. There will be a Q&A session during the lecture and a reception afterwards where students can meet Milt as well. This is an opportunity to meet a local entrepreneur who built his fortune from nothing to become one of the region’s wealthiest citizens.

• Inventing the Future Conference
  (YII Conference Poster) • (Conference Agenda)
  April 3rd and 4th, 2009 • NSH Atrium
  
  Are you a student interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, and bringing new ideas to the market? Join 100+ student innovators and entrepreneurs at the 5th Young Inventors International (YII) Inventing the Future Conference.
  Hosted at Perlis Atrium, Newell Simon Hall Carnegie Mellon University by Project Olympus
  Featuring Regis McKenna as the keynote speaker

  • Learn from experts in intellectual property, financing your innovation, design and prototyping, market research, and strategies for bringing your ideas to the market by starting your own company or licensing your technology at our Commercialization Marathon
  • Hear from student entrepreneurs on the Entrepreneurs' Panel, moderated by Alan Veeck (Principal at Meakem Becker Venture Capital) and featuring Luke Skurman (founder of College Prowler) and Susan Koger (Co-founder and Creative Director of ModCloth)
  • Connect with potential investors, partners, mentors, and friends while brainstorming technology solutions for the developing world at the BrainBuzz
  • Pitch your ideas to potential investors and partners

  Click here to find out more about the conference.
  If you are interested in volunteering or have questions about the conference, please contact Anne Swift.

• Olympus Connects Women@SCS
  Kit Needham • Wednesday, April 1, 2009 • 4:30pm • 4623 Wean Hall
  
  
• Olympus Connects Students
  Identifying and screening promising business ideas
  Monday, February 23, 2009 • 5:30pm - 7:00pm
  NSH Room 3305, Carnegie Mellon University
  Pizza & Refreshments
  Speaker: Kit Needham, Senior Business Analyst, Project Olympus
  Learn how to:
        •   Identify potential business ideas through "ideation"
        •   Quickly screen ideas to pick the most promising
  Bring your ideas, large and small. We'll break up into small groups and practice the techniques on the ideas that everyone brings. Who knows - you may find a great idea and teammates at the same time!
  BUSINESS CONCEPT TEMPLATE
  Event Slide Show (4.73 MB)
  
• ACM@CMU/Olympus' Kick Start Your Idea Event - Nov 21, 2008
  Keynote speaker: Kit Needham
   
  
• Olympus CONNECTS Students Roundtable (Poster, 2.01 MB)
  Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 5:00pm - 6:30 pm - Mauldin Auditorium, NSH 1305
  Rob Conway, Senior Manager, Business Development and Licensing
  Tara Branstad, Director, Enterprise Creation
  Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation, Carnegie Mellon
  Topic: Everything you need to know if you're thinking of starting a company
  (Slides 184 KB)
  Event Slide Show (5.97 MB)
  
• Olympus Reception for Swartz Entrepreneurship BootCamp
  (slideshow, 6.10 MB)
  Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 7:00pm-9:00 pm, Olympus NewSpace
  
  
• Olympus CONNECTS Students Roundtable (poster, 473 KB)
  Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 5:00pm - 6:30 pm - Newell Simon Hall (NSH) 3305
  Tara Branstad, Director, Enterprise Creation, Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation, Carnegie Mellon
  Topic: "What you always wanted to know about IP and all that" (Slides 48 KB)
  Event slide Show (2.98 MB)
  
• Olympus - CONNECTS Students
  Feb 5 Connects- Event Slide Show (2.82 MB)
  

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